Research

Open-sourcing one of our Tagalog ASR models

We believe in giving back.

At NCSpeech, we use open-source tools every day to move faster and build with quality. As we grow and develop voice solutions for banks, telcos, and other regulated sectors, it feels right to give something back to the community.

We’re open-sourcing one of our Tagalog ASR models: https://huggingface.co/NCSpeech/stt_tl_fastconformer_hybrid_large.

In our benchmarks it’s lighter, faster, and more accurate than Whisper on Tagalog, while staying close to leading commercial APIs in quality.

We hope it helps the community push Tagalog speech technologies forward, a language that’s still under-researched. Stay with us for future releases, share with us your results of using it, and message if you’re building voice AI for the Philippines. 🇵🇭